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Participation in cultural life and leisure (Article 30)

69. Most tourist sites and hotels do not have facilities for persons with

disabilities while information at tourist sites are often not accessible. This

presents an obstacle to the participation of persons with disabilities in

cultural life. Hearing impaired persons cannot enjoy entertainment

programs on television because there is no sign language translation. Such

translation is available for some news programs only.

70. Recommendation: The government should adopt measures to

encourage private operators of public services to provide facilities for

persons with disabilities in accordance with the universal design concept.

Hotels should be required to install emergency warning in guest rooms

that have both light and sound signals for the visually and hearing

impaired. The information at tourist sites should be in the formats that are

accessible to persons with different types of disability. The government

should require television operators to make caption for entertainment

programs, such as drama series, so that hearing impaired persons can enjoy

such programs on an equal basis with others.

Statistics and data collection (Article 31)

71. The National Statistical Office (NSO) conducts a disability survey every 5

years. However, concerned agencies have not used the data from such

survey fully because the definition of “disability” used in the survey is

different from that found in the 2007 Empowerment of Persons with

Disabilities Act. The DEP, which is the focal point for the implementation of

the Convention, has thus developed its own system of data collection. It is